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I was at that game, and I don't remember there being SEC chants at all. Now, I'm not saying it didn't happen, as it was a long time ago and I was plenty drunk that night - but the whole atmosphere in the Superdome and way the game unfolded remains crystal clear in my mind (and make no mistake, it was glorious!). I remember the "Geeeeee-nooooo" chants building steam and taking over the crowd as the game went on and Toretta bumbled and crumbled under the Bama D. And by the end of the game the dome echoed in Roll Tide chants. Besides being there and not remembering SEC chants, it also would have made no sense. Miami was in the freaking Big East! Nobody was talking up the strength of the Big East - it was all about Miami's historic rise and dominance in spite of their weak ass conference, not because of it. The game wasn't billed as a chance for the SEC to prove they could hang with the Big East, haha! Bama was Bama. They transcended their conference - even after falling off the map for awhile, they were still a legendary program, and those were the days way before conference pride became a thing.

Haha, yeah. During the broadcast the announcers emphasized how he had been coached to "just throw the ball away" if he gets in trouble. Hawkins clearly bought into that lesson. It was funny how in multiple instnces when a comeback was the only hope they had, he stuck to just throwing the ball away - even on the last drive and last freaking play when you would think they'd, I dunno, be willing to throw the kitchen sink at getting a touchdown on the board.

I'll chime in with my daughter's success story about transferring in to UT this Fall. She was a Lake Travis kid who took as many AP, UT On-Ramps, and ACC Dual Credit classes as possible, and all it took was one or two Bs in those advanced classes to drop her class rank to Top 11%. Her SAT was mid 1300s. Outstanding extracurriculars. I cautioned her that acceptance into UT was a longshot, and sure enough, she did not get accepted. She got Cap'd, but was dead set against that pathway since the curriculum is fixed, and she felt like she would be wasting a year re-taking classes she already took. She ended up going to her safety school, TCU. Interestingly, she got deferred then denied at Georgia, but got accepted to UC Irvine. For reasons I won't get into because it would venture into the cloak room, her mom (my ex wife) "wouldn't let her" go to UC Irvine, even though it is on par with or arguably a better school than UT. Long story, much angst, but as a 17-yr old my daughter was just not gonna rebel against her mom's wishes. Her freshman year at TCU was a fine experience, but a cake-walk. Truly, the classes were a joke even though she was in mostly upper division courses, and her classmates were lets just say not real academically oriented. She got 4.0s both semesters without trying, and said it was like her brain had been on a gap-year. She applied to the UT school of liberal arts as a transfer student for admission this Fall and was initially denied (probably because of all of the Cap students filling spots). But, she appealed the decision based on "new and relevant information" (namely, her 2nd semester 4.0 grades at TCU, which weren't factored in to the initial transfer app). Her appeal was successful - she got in to UT! She's now a happy UT sophomore, loving every second of the experience, and said the academic rigors are like night and day compared to TCU. Kids should keep in mind that with a little patience and diligence, the transfer pathway to UT is feasible.

This verse is cryptic at best, verging on unintelligible. So yeah, a word salad. Consider this: from an uninformed person looking in and asking for an explanation of what is meant by things like "spiritual warfare" and the word of God being a sword (which to someone who hasn't been raised around such concepts, can be quite confusing and rather alarming), quoting the Bible verbatim it isn't very helpful. For - this indicates a follow-on or concluding statement is being made based on a whole bunch of other explanation that came before it, but without that context, there's confusion right off the bat. our struggle - is this about a particular struggle happening at that time, like persecution of believers? Or is this more philosophical, like general struggles any time we start feeling like life is always an uphill climb and nothing's going our way? flesh and blood - first thought is this refers to how the struggle doesn't involve physical fighting or face-to-face interactions, but then it occurred to me "flesh and blood" could be referring to family (our own flesh and blood) or a family of fellow believers. Knowing who this refers to would help resonate what is meant by the struggle against rulers (who after all, are also flesh and blood), etc. against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers - ...who were persecuting believers? or just in general? Either way, I guess the point is Christians should be prepared for and unsurprised by struggles imposed by rulers and authorities and the powers that be (so it is what it is, don't sweat it?)? dark world - sounds ominous. Still trying to unpack, though, and the meaning is not self evident. spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms - ah, here's the spiritual warfare part (maybe?). Well, it hasn't gotten to the fighting back part yet, just the existence of supernatural enemies. Presumably later in Ephesians it goes on to talk about how to combat these various causes of struggles, including but not limited to the heavenly spiritual forces (maybe by praying? or taking comfort by reading the word of God? or outright taking action using the Word as a weapon, like exorcism style commands or some other way to go on offense instead of defense?)? I think a lot of people get frustrated when answers to their questions are "go read XXX X:X". For a believer, it is sacred text and it has the ultimate credibility, so they're going to infer as much wisdom out of it as possible, and lo and behold: the verse is crystal clear and unambiguous! But when read on its face by a curious person, even who earnestly wants to know more, it ought to be a fair critique to call passages like this a word salad.

No, something is off in those numbers. The statewide water demand in 2020 was 7.7 million acre-feet. https://www.twdb.texas.gov/waterplanning/swp/2022/docs/04-SWP22_Future-Population.pdf Samsung was not using 7.5 million acre-feet, virtually all of the water demand of Texas. ...Too preoccupied with enjoying the heavy rainfall right now in 78756 to reconcile the math...

Well I guess it makes sense to pull out on pi day

While not the same thing, this reminds me of the time my wife (no pics) and I were upgraded on a MEX-AUS flight. But, we were in like 3B and 3C which on that plane happened to be two aisle seats rather than right next to each other. When we got settled in, a woman asked my wife if she would switch seats so she could sit next to her husband, which would have moved my wife to a completely different row. We declined and indicated we'd prefer to stay sitting by each other, and the woman got all huffy. After they got seated, my wife, being gracious, and tried to clear the air with the husband, and he just rolled his eyes, threw his hands up in desperation, and gave the look of a typical defeated husband who knew his wife was being unreasonable but he had to take her side anyway. I'm guessing there is a reasonable chance this encounter was with a fellow surly poster, haha. But, was it wrong to not agree to their switcheroo request just because my wife and I wanted to sit "next" to each other, even while divided by an aisle?

Mitch McConnell 81 Dick Cheney 82 Putin 71 Britney Spears 42 Clarence Thomas 75 Netanyahu 74 Kim Jong Un 39 Jerry Sandusky 79 Donald Trump 77 Kanye 46

Put him on an uninhabited island in the Bering Strait so he's close to Mother Russia. Give him a small but comfortable house with a TV that only gets CNN. Stock him up periodically with food supplies and toiletries, but he's on his own to cook and clean. Stock him up with board games, puzzles, books, and whatnot. Have Secret Service vigorously monitor the island from afar. Generously allow visitors once a week. By any other standard, a highly compassionate house arrest. Way more humiliation than the celebrity status he would enjoy at any actual prison facility.

Jeez, there are avalanches at least biannually around there. All self-inflicted, under Sharp's watch.

Haha, so true - Fast Truck would be horrible, that idea. It was intended as a dig on formulaic country songs, not as a way to make it better, but pointing out how he missed a golden opportunity to kill two birds with one stone (make the cover his own, and check the "truck" box for the song).

Jeez, what an abomination of a cover. When it comes on the radio I can't change the channel fast enough, except half the time on shitty Austin radio its playing on at least one other station at the same time. The dude broke the cover song honor code and didn't even try to change up his version, even a little. It's generic and soulless. Could you at least have made the song "Fast Truck", or sung it from the perspective of the other character (presumably the boyfriend) in the song? Nope - instead we get to hear a country bumpkin twangin' on about being a homeless woman with an out of work boyfriend, desperately dreaming of a better life. The whole thing just isn't plausible - I mean, redneck dudes don't live in shelters, work in convenience stores, have partners (girlfriends/boyfriends?) who put their arm around their shoulder while driving fast cars. He even kept the line about how he's gonna work in the market as a checkout girl. It's the same as if I learned to mimic 99 Luftballons so I could do a killer karaoke performance - yep, I could do it, but I wouldn't have a damn clue about the words I was singing. The only silver lining of this atrocity is that it put a black female songwriter on the top of the country charts for the first time, and I can only imagine she's laughing at this cracker all the way to the bank.

Steven Tyler - 74 John Daly - 56 Donald Trump - 76 Bruce Willis - 67 Jon Voight - 84 Mike Ditka - 83 Lee Corso - 87 Kim Jong-Un - 38 Kelly Osborne - 38 Britney Spears - 41

Solar radiation heats the earth's crust, warm air rises, cool air descends - turbulence.

Absolutely yes, it is worth it. We were there last month on a Saturday afternoon and it was almost entirely locals. Yes, it was crowded, but on the water it didn't seem overly so, because after going through a bottleneck of party boats, you'd hit a more peaceful stretch to chill out for a bit. None of the sellers tried a hard sell - just wave them off, and they get it. Or, beckon them over and check out what they've got. The whole experience was fascinating, and while kitschy, it seemed like a glimpse into authentic Mexican family fun; and at least the day we were there, felt like it was off the beaten path of the US tourist circuit.

Yep. I just got my wife (no pics) up to speed on this story, and the very first words out of her mouth were: "What was he thinking bringing his mistress to Alabama with him? If there's one thing Alabama's got, it's pretty girls willing to fuck a football coach. They may be dumber than a box of rocks, but they're pretty."

Jimmy Carter - 97 Loretta Lynn - 89 Alan Alda - 85 Mike Ditka - 82 Dick Cheney - 80 Steven Tyler - 73 Axl Rose - 59 Matthew Perry - 52 Alex Jones - 47 Kim Jong-un - 37

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Huh. Down $30K in 78756. ...meanwhile zillow report (yeah, yeah) shows a $270K increase since last yr

Fun fact: that song was Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Oh man, at that restaurant's price point, that's downright tacky and rude to overtly suggest a time limit - but let me tell you, Olive & June has been rushing meals since way before the pandemic. On our first visit, they brought our cocktails and seemed pushy to get the order placed right then. We said sure, we're ready to order, but please let us enjoy our drinks before bringing the appetizer, we are in no rush. Well, the appetizer came right out, and the entree got plopped down onto our table soon thereafter, before we even touched the appetizer. On our second visit we emphasized to our waiter that we were looking forward to a leisurely evening, and we purposely spaced out the ordering process to assure this - but we got the distinct impression over the course of the meal that they were itching to turn the table, something that shouldn't ever happen at a restaurant who fancies themselves of a certain caliber.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/explore-every-tornado-across-united-states-1980-through-interactive-map-180950243/

Marble sized hail in 78756 for 2 minutes. One of our cars is dimpled pretty bad, but the windshield stayed intact.

That's good for a thirty point pop!